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The Council of Diospolis.

HEROS, and Lazarus, Two Bishops of Gaul, who had been obliged to quit, the one the * 1.1 Bishoprick of Arles, and the other, that of Aix, and to retire into the East, joined with Orosius, to accuse Pelagius; and drew up a Petition, containing the Errors whereof they accu∣sed him, which they pretended to be taken out of his Books, and maintained by Coelestius his Disciple. This Accusation was preferr'd to a Synod of Fourteen Bishops, held at Diospolis, anciently called Lydda, a City of Palaestine. Eulogius of Caesarea was President, and John of Jerusalem held the Second Place. Though they were absent, yet their Petition was read; (for one of them was very sick at that time) and they questioned Pelagius about the Errors alled∣ged against him. This Man answered all the Heads of his Accusation, by disowning all the Errors imputed to him, or by giving a Catholick Sence in appearance, to what either Coelestius, or himself had asserted. Whereupon, the Synod absolved him, as having sufficiently answered the Charge of his Adversaries. St. Augustin produces the Acts of this Council, in the Book of Pelagius's Acts; and there is an Abridgment of them in his 106th. Letter. He makes use also, of the Authority of the Fathers of this Council against Julianus. St. Prosper likewise

quotes the Fathers of this Council with high commendation, for condemning Pelagius's Errors. Yet St. Jerom calleth this Council, a Pitiful Assembly, because they suffered themselves to be imposed upon by Pelagius's Dissimulation.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Council of Diospo∣lis, in ccccxviij.